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Nature 448, 15-17 (5 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448015a; Published online 4 July 2007

Many worlds: See me here, see me there

Mark Buchanan1

  1. Mark Buchanan is a science writer based in Europe. His latest book is The Social Atom.
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Fifty years ago, a physics student dissatisfied with the standard view of quantum mechanics came up with a radical new interpretation. Mark Buchanan reports on the ensuing debate.

In 1957, a young physicist from Princeton University published his first paper — it went virtually unnoticed — and then disappeared from academia. He worked as an engineer and analyst in the defence industry until he died in 1982, at the age of 51.

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